Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

And, most importantly, designed for people to have fun doing it. (I'm For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game. Design ways to surface these needs and create channels by which helpers can pitch in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Networked nonprofits are experts at using new media (social media, mobile, and other emerging technologies) to spread their missions, design and scale programs, communicate with stakeholders, or inspire behavior change. The organization has strong capacity in content creation as well as repurposing or remixing across channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. She is the third person to mention a remix. It gave my seven year old a good laugh!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I've been designing and delivering technology trainings for nonprofit organizations for the past 15 years, I've tried to find fun ways for people to understand and feel comfortable with whatever technology. Social media is all about the linkages to people versus content and the ability to self-organize and co-creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. Many people have also remixed it. Stay tuned for that!

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Most of the content was (and is) user generated. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. We designed events and interactive exhibits on ten dollar budgets. based on Tim O'Reilly's four key elements of Web 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

It's the agency's campaign designed to inspire individuals across the country to help advance the common good through giving, advocating and volunteering in the areas of education, income and health. Iavor points out that training (in the form of Webinars to be delivered by Livingston Communications ) and content kits are critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was a little challenging to remix a workshop that would be relevant to these different perspectives and age groups and have people leave the room having learned something. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. I revised a lot of the content to match the audience. tags: nptech youth ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. The next step is to see how people remix, improve, and share back the material (with attribution of course) - that is the true power of working wikily. We had a lot of content to cover in two days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I said yes. Here's a few thoughts. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox this week is called " Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes." for Designers " from the Digital Web Magazine. As a result of the remixing aspects of Web 2.0, most content will be first encountered away from the domain in which it lies. designed??? distributed???

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Last week, I was reintroduced to Scratch , a graphical programming language designed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. In this post, a look at the intentional design choices that make ScratchR work. There is no private chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This is a nonprofit remix of some of Chris Brogan's ideas and 50 ways to use social media organized by Groundswell objectives from Jeremiah Owyang. Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it. There are two aspects of Side Trip that really stand out: the immersive environment and the design of the interactives. The results of this physical “remix” activity are beautiful, intricate posters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

I don't know if this possible - I have to find the right.swf to.avi converter and test it - but you could possibly edit and remix these clips into a screencast. The content that I cover in the screencast, btw, is a quick peek at two Facebook apps. WFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. There are two sets of social roles here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content. After watching almost all the Jetson's episodes on YouTube, I thought I better start to dig into the content. Network the rest This is happening by design in some newer nonprofits. Will nonprofits in the future: 1. Identify the essential 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I pitched my Open Content game for Nonprofits. In retrospect, I designed the game more for a range people who work in a nonprofits - technical and mangerial - and this audience a mix of more technical and technology providers. Still, I got a lot of great feedback for the next remix of this game. or similar) licensing.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. I want everyone to be able to use the content and make derivative works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

After taking one look at the syllabus, course faculty instructor Jennifer Aaker and invited guests , I couldn't resist designing a learning experience that integrated a social media birthday fundraising experiment aimed at helping support the work of the Sharing Foundation with "listen, learn, and adapt" and real-time tracking and reflection.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

Designing an exhibit, the first questions are usually: “what is this about? What’s the content? Now, I and thirteen other students are creating an exhibit designed not around content goals but social action goals. In this design experiment, we are inviting individuals far and wide to give us advice. June 6 to Mon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 3: Socialize your content with compelling stories that inspire people to donate. You will probably get lots of great ideas and see lots of great examples of content generated by your champions and donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Content Generation and Issues Awareness: You encourage stakeholders to create content about your organization or it's issues and share it with others and encouraging fans to talk about your issues to others (word of mouth). Will your content updates depend on any other resource or person? Do you need any outside expertise?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

One of the design decisions in setting up the wiki was registration. Adding content - adding links, phrases, bullet points, or whole paragraphs. This is defined as someone who has taken the extra step to opt into taking ownership or responsibility for contributing content and possibly be contacted by the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Does your web site or blog publish excellent content on a regular basis? Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals. I'm so excited!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages. Content expertise matters.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Rather, the focus of the conversations was philosophical: What are the consequences of user-generated content? It was clear that this group of senior museum professionals was not ready for the implications of user-generated content invading the establishments that they had worked so hard to build. It was a non-issue. in museums?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. Libraries are more customer-focused, museums, more content-focused. Museums provide the information that we deem useful or interesting.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages. Content expertise matters.

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